The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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